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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
distinctive aspects of transformational outsourcing. First, senior management has the explicit intention of transforming the organization, and secondly, the impact of the change is measurable at the enterprise level. Why should HBS alumni read this book? Those who are... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
Clubs News Clubs News Setting the Stage for a Latinx Boardroom Push The Harvard Business School Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA), in partnership with the Stanford Graduate School of Business Latino Alumni... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
about the virus. I thought that it was important information and suggested we should share it with our membership.” Lundgren suggested organizing and moderating the online program for club members, and Seftel agreed without hesitation.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
acquisition of small- and medium-sized companies, Baker first observed the corrosive effect of corruption. "I didn't come out of HBS equipped to deal with it," he recalls. "It was so harmful to the business process, I started trying to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
Business Leader of the Year In late January, the HBS Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) presented Arthur Rock with its Business Leader of the Year Award. The HBSA/NC annually recognizes a highly... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
such as San Antonio and Chicago to help develop for-profit community organizations. Two years later Lazarus became president of the Washington Council for Equal Business Opportunity. Eventually he left that job, because, he says, "I... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
roaring into the modern world. World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It by Pankaj Ghemawat (PhDBE '82) (Harvard Business Review Press) Reacting to the global financial crisis, governments are pushing for increased protectionism.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10). Silvers’s formative experience with... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
hold for businesses all over the world has inspired HBS to establish its own startup here. Last summer the School's California Research Center (CRC) opened its doors in Menlo Park at 3000 Sand Hill Road, an address at the hub of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
places the spotlight on you, our alumni. Not only are you critical in supporting our mission, but in the work you do in organizations large and small all over the globe, you are living proof that we educate View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
canoes, dwellings, and totem poles. A road now bisects the hill and the coast, with a busy logging facility operating just off the water. Hulking yellow vehicles relocate felled trees around a dirt lot, navigating stacks of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
Value Shift by Lynn Sharp Paine The Support Economy by Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxim Value Shift by Lynn Sharp Paine (McGraw HIll) Were it not for the years HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana spent Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen, Tyco. A glance at the View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
leadership position in the Northeast through the strategic use of new technology, marketing savvy, and a management style that encouraged staff to invest themselves in their work. In 1996, BayBanks merged with Bank of Boston to form BankBoston. As with his earlier... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
Stephen H. Baum (MBA ’65) with Dave Conti (Crown Business) What made Jack Welch, Gordon Bethune, and Cathy Black extraordinary leaders? Based on interviews with more than two dozen CEOs and a career of serving and observing CEOs as a View Details
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
“personal board of directors” cannot be overstated. These small, highly organized and facilitated groups, which are run through the HBS global alumni clubs network, serve as a sounding board and reality check for View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
Image by John Weber Related Links Featured research: "Think Customers Hate Waiting? Not so Fast..." Read Director John Korn's blog Did you know? HBS alumni include... As an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, Modupe Akinola... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
who was the first in his extended family to attend college. “I got that job because the head of research was a Dartmouth graduate and he came up to campus to interview candidates—that shows the power of connection.” It’s a realization that inspired his Black Heart... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
x-ray machines. Today, under Immelt’s leadership, GE is a $173 billion organization that still has roots in its past, even as it rides a wave of 21st-century innovation in clean energy, water treatment, and medical technology that will... View Details